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about $90-140 for the pads if you order online + 1 hr shop labor rate (takes me 15 min using floor jack in driveway , breaker bar to remove tires, changing pads and putting wheels back on)
about $90-140 for the pads if you order online + 1 hr shop labor rate (takes me 15 min using floor jack in driveway , breaker bar to remove tires, changing pads and putting wheels back on)
Is it really this easy to do? I haven't done brakes in one of my cars since college. Maybe I should take a crack at it.
Cheapest online source? Too bad FCP Euro doesn't have these pads or the lifetime guarantee would be amazing.
It really is extremely easy to do and the rear pistons don't normally seize up the way the front ones will when you are trying to cruise through a brake job. Overpriced...definitely. I dropped the price from $302.99 to $285. Best deal on an OE formula pad would be the Pagid's located here.
Just replaced mine at dealer for about $380 after 10k miles. 10k miles seems low, but I do drive... aggressively.
Wow, 10K miles, I've got 51,000 miles on my brakes and still on the original pads, I guess I must drive my car like a lil old lady, lol. No indications they are worn out yet, rotors still look like new. Maybe thats a record for brake pad life on one of these cars....
Wow, 10K miles, I've got 51,000 miles on my brakes and still on the original pads, I guess I must drive my car like a lil old lady, lol. No indications they are worn out yet, rotors still look like new. Maybe thats a record for brake pad life on one of these cars....
Ugh. Could it be due to my Gyrodisc rotors? When I bought the rotors I talked to Gyrodisc and they said there should be no issue with keeping the OEM pads. If 20k miles rolls around and the pads are bad again I'm gonna have to go non-OEM it seems.
So got my car back and dealer said my fronts are in green (these are same since I bought the car new) and rears have over 50% left and do not need changing -- I have 21,000 original miles on the original brakes and yes I drive like a grandma most of the time and lots of highway miles
It really is extremely easy to do and the rear pistons don't normally seize up the way the front ones will when you are trying to cruise through a brake job. Overpriced...definitely. I dropped the price from $302.99 to $285. Best deal on an OE formula pad would be the Pagid's located here.
I'll update the fitment guide on that one as it's a little misleading.
--Kyle
Kyle - hold up. Your fitments are throwing me off here. do you have a complete Mercedes genuine set of pads for front and rears? (link?)
Second question, the OE pagids, are they really the same pads sold to mercedes and will they fit a 2014 or just 2013 and older?
Your lifetime warranty kind of blows my mind and I was really disappointed when I didn't see a full set for my car
Peter- apologies for blowing up your thread here but if we can figure out a vendor to sell brake pads that you only have to pay for once? Epic win right?
It really is extremely easy to do and the rear pistons don't normally seize up the way the front ones will when you are trying to cruise through a brake job. Overpriced...definitely. I dropped the price from $302.99 to $285. Best deal on an OE formula pad would be the Pagid's located here.
I'll update the fitment guide on that one as it's a little misleading.
--Kyle
Your lifetime replacement is pretty crazy, I will most definitely get pads for my next brake job from you guys.
I believe you are missing some year models for fitment so using the vehicle selector you don't get all the possible choices that are compatible. I have a 2012 cls63 and the pagids don't show up, another thing is it shows as textar being the oem pad. Did mercedes use different manufacturers between the years?
All great questions, I'm working on this section of the catalog over the next couple of days. Jurid, Brembo and Pagid are the only brands I normally see when I pull the pads off these cars. The Genuine Mercedes pads are normally Brembo branded when I unbox them and the Pagids are normally the same formula.
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